Valve with Steamdeck and Proton development: “Am I a joke to you?”

Honestly, big shoutout to Microsoft for the strong push to get me in Linux's loving embrace.

Double shoutout to them for making it very easy to not even considering to come back.

That and backwards compatibility for Win7 & Win10. Shares of those OSs have gone up and several application developers have announced continued support or are advocating for unlocking/keeping secure those OSs.

I have said the same as well. Prior to them dropping the fat grumpy that is 11, I was all in on the windows ecosystem for myself. I heavily modified it of course so it didn't have a bunch of the nonsense but overall, the experience was good. But then they started warping 10, and then they came out with 11 which was massive garbage at release and now is worse garbage years down the road. And with that AI outlook, I'm full on bailing from everything.

And Mac.

I've got two friends that are right in the edge of trying. One has a spare thin client that he wants to PoC with and was asking for distros and how to install. The other was thinking of jumping in the deep end with Arch, and I've warned him, but the wiki is solid, he's not dumb, and Arch install is better than it ever has been.

And literally 99% of their userbase will stay on Windows.

I dunno. I feel like they are like the cable company now. They will jus sit there twiddling their nipples while we are all fucked.

Hate to tell you, but we're all incredibly fucked. Least of all Microsoft. They know what they're doing. They most certainly already have a plan for recovery, as they know it's coming just as well as everyone else.

I keep parroting this, but in the next couple of years, I think there will be a couple of giants that fall. I work in ServiceNow and they, like many others, have gone all in on AI. Their problem is that they were slower than some, their solution is half baked at best, and it's prohibitively expensive. Nobody is paying 10s of thousands+ extra for the licensing to be able to run agents, and less are paying the extra licensing required for the users to be able to use that agent.

I've now been pulled into copilot studio, and yet again it's another product rushed to market that isn't ready for the big stage. Dog shit documentation and training material, and terrible environment design.

All of these big players have invested so much money in adding AI, nobody wants it, and now they're all hemoragging money.